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A specification of the Heroic Sacrifice. Things are going really well for our heroic party: the infiltration in the Big Bad's evil fortress of doom is advancing steadily and without a problem. Then, suddenly, things take a turn for the worst: the villain turns some phlebotinum-powered device on the heroes, or a dangerous foe long thought dead has reappeared and is endangering not only the quest of our heroes but their very survival. What happens then? "Not to worry, you go ahead, I'll deal with this inconvenience!" Famous words... and usually the last. For some reason, The Big Guy of the crew will usually be the one who does the sacrifice. Whenever there are characters in a show, book, etc., the biggest/strongest/most massive one will be, against common sense, the first to die, usually saving the rest of the crew so they can go on and finish their epic quest. Similar to The Worf Effect, only in that trope a) it's the tough one who's affected (often The Lancer or a Sixth Ranger instead of The Big Guy), b) Worf usually survives, and c) the Big Guy Fatality Syndrome normally goes at the end of a book, series, whatever, while The Worf Effect goes at the beginning. If they're The Big Guy in the Five-Man Band, or female, or both, they're less likely to die. When this happens to a Husky Russkie, it is a clear indication of Russian Guy Suffers Most at work. Also can overlap with Black Dude Dies First if the big guy is a Scary Black Man. See also Vasquez Always Dies, a related Always Female trope where the more badass of two leading female characters will always be the first to go. Since strength is associated with masculinity, compare Men Are the Expendable Gender. Often an early step in a Dwindling Party situation. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod: Tetsuo is the culprit, roping up Ukyo into helping him drug, electrocute and set on fire Iori out of revenge for Iori's own crimes. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Gonta commits murder after learning about the (albeit fictional) state of the outside world, and was convinced by Kokichi that killing everyone before they could learn that horrible truth would be a an act of mercy (in reality, Kokichi had learned that Miu was planning to kill him, so he manipulated Gonta into killing her first in order to save his own ass). | |
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Thunderbird, one of the new X-Men's two big guys along with Colossus, was killed on one of his first missions with the team, attempting to bring down the jet of Maggia leader Count Nefario.note Thunderbird was chosen for this role because, having a similar personality to Wolverine and similar powers to Colossus, and visually less impressive than both of them, he was deemed redundant by the writing staff. Colossus later dies in more dramatic circumstances in self-sacrifice to cure the Legacy Virus. Strong Guy by the nature of his powers dies protecting the rest of his team from a bomb. He didn't die from the explosion but from the heart attack it induced. |
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Buck the gorilla in Rise of the Planet of the Apes dies taking down a helicopter. | |
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Double subverted during the final killing game in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School. Despite the abundance of Big Guys in the game, Chisa Yukizome was the first to die. However, once the rules of the game are properly explained by Monokuma and they start "playing", the trope comes in full effect with Daisaku Bandai dying of NG Code poisoning and Great Gozu getting murdered by the culprit, almost back to back. Interestingly enough, Juzo Sakakura managed to survive until after the game was shut down despite being a complete beefcake, and is thus not considered a casualty (even though he did pass away from his wounds afterwards). | |
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Ryoma from Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato isn't the first character on the good guys's side to die, but he is the first member of the Five-Man Band to kick it. He gets better, though. | |
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Fire Emblem: Basilio of Fire Emblem: Awakening is killed by Walhart on the battlefield despite being warned ahead of time by someone from the future that he would die there. Actually subverted; it's later revealed that Basilio was Playing Possum. He did die in the original timeline, but because of the warning, he knew to play dead this time around rather than give into his pride and fight to the death. In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, this can happen to Dedue Molinaro in both the Blue Lions and the Black Eagles routes. In Blue Lions, during the timeskip, Dimitri gets caught and sentenced to death by Cornelia. However, Dedue manages to break Dimitri out of prison and take his place, and if you did not complete his paralogue before the timeskip, he dies here. In the Black Eagles route, during the battle on the Tailtean Plains, Dedue will reveal that he took the Crest Stones out of the vaults and gave them to a few of the other soldiers plus himself, hoping that the inevitable transformation into Crest Beasts they induce will be enough to turn the tides in favour of the Faerghus army. He doesn't technically have to be the first to die in this battle, but since the layout of the battlefield naturally draws you past him on your way to Dimitri, it's extremely likely. |
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Averted in The Goonies when Sloth remains behind to hold up the boulder so the kids can escape, but then later makes it out (with his Ma, like a good son, even though she had been bad). | |
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The Redwall books in general have a surprisingly high casualty rate on the good guys' side. The trope is played straightest by the death of the massive Northlander hare Rockjaw Grang in The Long Patrol holding off a band of vermin alone. | |
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At the climax of the Malloreon, the Gentle Giant Toth is killed by a Demon Lord-possessed dragon in a last-ditch effort by Zandramas to keep Belgarion away from the final confrontation between Light and Dark. It was also intended to leave his Platonic Life Partner Cyradis too emotionally vulnerable to arbitrate. It fails miserably on both counts and Toth gets a crystal tomb for his trouble. | |
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Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: Goh is also the culprit, misled into activating Kenji's Drowning Pit and finishing off Sumire so that Kenji can save himself from execution. | |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Ironhide, likely the most powerful Autobot on the team bar Optimus, is the first Autobot casualty of the film, leaving the Autobots without their signature heavy-hitter. It takes the three Wreckers to equal the amount of ass-kicking that Ironhide had. The Driller also dies quite early in the movie. Optimus easily kills it by flying through its head, snapping it off. Driller dies before any of the signature Decepticons such as Shockwave, Soundwave and Starscream. |
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Shinji from Super Danganronpa Another 2 is subjected to multiple murder attempts, and eventually sets himself on fire to try and save his attackers from execution. | |
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Justice League: Grundy, from the Most Definitely Not The Defenders group, in "The Terror Beyond." | |
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Appears to happen to Brick (along with Mordecai) near the end of Borderlands 2. The pair arrive to provide fire support during part of the final level, until their transport is overwhelmed and destroyed. It's a clear case of Never Found the Body, though, so few players are surprised to find them alive and well after the mission. | |
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RWBY: While she doesn't die, Yang becomes the first member of Team RWBY to suffer a life-threatening injury when her right arm is sliced off above the elbow by Adam during the Battle of Vale. Also, Yang has the dubious honour of being the first member of Team RWBY to decisively lose a fight against an antagonist, which in her case would be Neo (and said case very nearly proved to be fatal for the poor girl too). | |
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Inverted in Seven Samurai: Kyuzo and Kikuchiyo, who are both considered the muscle of the group in different ways, are killed last. | |
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Tetsuo Shingen of Roulette Rampage is the largest and heaviest of the cast, and he bites it in Chapter 2 as a last minute target for that Chapter's killer. As it wont for a fanwork based off of Danganronpa. | |
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In Halo: Reach, Jorge, Noble Team's only Spartan-II, dies when he heroically activates the slipspace bomb in the Covenant supercarrier, after throwing the player down to Reach. Although most of Noble Team is dead by the end anyway, so it's really more of an "Everyone Dies" Ending scenario. | |
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Super Paper Mario: In the last chapter, Bowser is the first member of the party to be lost, as he holds up a collapsing ceiling after defeating O'Chunks to allow the rest of the party to escape. It's subverted in the end, though, as he and O'Chunks both ended up falling through the floor and surviving. | |
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The K.R.D. Chronicles trilogy are Continuations of Danganronpa. As a result, the resident big guys of the cast die in Chapter 4: Danganronpa: Memento Mori: Hirou is the victim, being killed by a shotgun Booby Trap set up by Yukiharu, intended for Souta. Danganronpa: Komm Susser Tod: Tetsuo is the culprit, roping up Ukyo into helping him drug, electrocute and set on fire Iori out of revenge for Iori's own crimes. Danganronpa: Paradise Lost: Goh is also the culprit, misled into activating Kenji's Drowning Pit and finishing off Sumire so that Kenji can save himself from execution. |
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Knights Of The Old Republic Cinematic Universe: When the final battle onboard the Star Forge takes place in Episode III: The Circle of Fate, Zaalbar the Wookiee dies while saving his best friend Mission Vao's life and becomes alongside Jolee Bindo the only member of the original crew of the Ebon Hawk who dies unlike in the canonical walkthough of the game the story's based on. | |
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Mareg's death in Grandia II comes fast and hard. During the escape from Valmar's Moon, he uses his huge frame to block off a chokepoint, buying his friends enough time to get back on the ship. An insectoid flies at Mareg from behind and impales him with its stinger. When one (beast)man stays behind to hold off a million demons, there's really only one way it can end. | |
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Subverted in The Carpet People: Glurk fully intends to sacrifice himself as the rest of the heroes escape a collapsing tunnel, as that's his role as a hero in a proper story (and quite probably his fate in the initial version of the book). However, this proves too much of a cliche for Pismire to allow it. | |
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In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Groot performs a Heroic Sacrifice by using himself to shield the rest of the team when the villain's ship crashes with them inside. Another, different Groot grows out of a twig left from his demise to replace him in future films. | |
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The Order of the Stick - Played straight for the Precursor Heroes, who permanently disbanded after their muscle (Kraagor) died sealing the last rift. Played with for the Order themselves - their leader has already died and been revived, but the two most obvious "Big Guys" both have ominous prophecies over their heads. Belkar is scheduled to take his last breath before the in-universe year ends, while Durkon can only return home posthumously. Then Durkon dies protecting Belkar and is brought back as a vampire. | |
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In The Wishsong of Shannara it is Helt, the gigantic Borderman, who stays behind to raise the drawbridge after his companions. Justified, as Helt had already been poisoned in a battle against an earlier monster, and knew his time was short. | |
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Yudai in Raging Loop is the first to die on both the Yomi and Wit routes of the novel. He also dies on the Darkness route, but makes it much farther before Haruaki kills him. | |
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Omega Supreme is offlined in The Transformers: Robots in Disguise. He's alive but the damage is so severe that he still isn't healed after the book changes over to Optimus Prime, which is several years later both in and out of universe. | |
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Shin Mazinger Zero: This actually happens to Boss, of all people. | |
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If the player sides with the Railroad in Fallout 4, the Brotherhood will find out their hidden base and attack them at one point. Glory, a Railroad Heavy who is their strongest named member will be fatally wounded while trying to hold the Brotherhood soldiers off from the front entrance. This takes place in normal gameplay, but it's a scripted event so even if you manage to kill all the Brotherhood troops before they can get a shot off, she'll still spontaneously expire. | |
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Fushigi Yuugi: Nuriko is the physically strongest of the Suzaku warriors despite how he looks, and is the first of them to die, after an intense battle and completes with Snow Means Death. | |
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In Skulduggery Pleasant, Ghastly Bespoke is forced to turn himself to stone to avoid death, and is out of the picture for several books. Averted for Tanith Low, the best candidate for The Big Guy after Ghastly. In every book she faces some sort of near-death experience, but is never actually killed. |
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In Farscape, the series's Big Guy D'Argo is the only regular character (regular at that point, that is: another former regular was brought Back for the Dead) to die in the Grand Finale. | |
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In Buttercup's Baby, The Princess Bride's second part (at least in theory), it's Big Guy Fezzik who throws himself over an enormous cliff to save Waverly, who is Buttercup and Westley's daughter. | |
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Berserk: Pippin, by far the biggest member of the Band of the Hawk, is the first of the major Hawks to buy it when the Eclipse goes down and the demons start coming out of the woodwork. He goes down fighting, buying Judeau and Casca time to escape the initial attack, and it takes a multitude of demons to bring him down. | |
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Sakura commits suicide to both atone for being The Mole and fulfill her end of the deal she made with Monokuma (he threatened to demolish her family's dojo unless she agreed to both be his mole and kill someone if no murder had happened in a while, but he never specified it had to be someone else). | |
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Subverted in the Wraith Squadron series. Voort "Piggy" SaBinring, a Gamorrean who was experimented upon to increase his intelligence to living tactical computer levels, is described as a large and somewhat portly pilot (and porcine besides), but in spite of his role as a Genius Bruiser, he manages to stop an assassin after taking a blaster shot to the gut... and not dying like normal people should have. Notable for sharing a callsign with Jek Porkins, mentioned above. | |
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In the Halo novels, Spartan-II Blue Team goes through no less than THREE Big Guys - Samuel, James, William - all while the other four members survive throughout. | |
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In Mass Effect, Urdnot Wrex is a roughly seven-foot-tall 330 lb living tank and the party's main heavy hitter. He is also the first squadmate in the series who can potentially be Killed Off for Real if you can't talk him down during a dispute on Virmire. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, Grunt stays behind to give Shepard and their team time to escape from Reaperized Rachni, killing over a dozen of the walking alien tanks with his shotgun, fists and alien limbs wrenched from their owners before tackling one final foe off of a cliff. A rare subversion in that if the player had gained his loyalty in Mass Effect 2, he can live through sheer badassery, limping out of the cave covered in gore and asking for food. | |
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Getter Robo: It happens to Musashi Tomoe over and over again. AND his sucessor, Benkei Kuruma. By the end of the manga, only Ryoma and Hayato amongst the original team survives, until Ryoma himself may or may not bite the dust as well. |
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In the Mass Effect series: In Mass Effect, Urdnot Wrex is a roughly seven-foot-tall 330 lb living tank and the party's main heavy hitter. He is also the first squadmate in the series who can potentially be Killed Off for Real if you can't talk him down during a dispute on Virmire. In Mass Effect 3, Grunt stays behind to give Shepard and their team time to escape from Reaperized Rachni, killing over a dozen of the walking alien tanks with his shotgun, fists and alien limbs wrenched from their owners before tackling one final foe off of a cliff. A rare subversion in that if the player had gained his loyalty in Mass Effect 2, he can live through sheer badassery, limping out of the cave covered in gore and asking for food. |
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The Sword of Shannara: Keltset the Troll, messiah of the Troll nation, and Genius Bruiser, dies holding up the roof while his best friend Panammon Creel, and Shea Ohmsford make their getaway. | |
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Kakeru from Danganronpa Another is killed off to prevent him from foiling the killer's murder plot, and to add insult to injury, unlike the canon big characters and his successor, he dies in Chapter 3. | |
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Chopper in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War is the only member of Wardog Squadron to die under Blaze's command. He dies in pure Heroic Sacrifice fashion, buying time for the civilians of a crowded stadium to evacuate under enemy attack. | |
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Transformers: Prime: Breakdown is the first of the recurring cast to bite the dust. Made much crueler by virtue of the fact that Airachnid, who Breakdown admitted to having a crush on, is the one to kill him. The "big, heavy hitting guy" role in the Decepticon side seems to have the most lethal position in the Decepticon Army next to "mook Vehicon". Prior to Breakdown, Skyquake showed up and was killed off in his debut episode, though he managed to hold his own against Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for a time. Later, Hardshell ends up getting killed in his second episode; though his actions in his first are another example of this trope. And then Dreadwing bit the dust, though admittedly he was more a composite of The Brute and The Dragon during Season 2. While not dead, Predaking was made into a Robot Popsicle one episode after his introduction. It doesn't last. Bulkhead is grievously injured in the finale of the mid-season arc, shot in the back by the Insecticon Hardshell. Ratchet managed to stabilize him, however, it appears the damage that Hardshell did to his chassis may be permanent; leaving whether or not Bulkhead will return to action an Open question. He did return to action, but his recovery still took time before completion... For another example, Cliffjumper in the first episode was also a Big Guy, and he was the Sacrificial Lamb of the series. |
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Danganronpa: Memento Mori: Hirou is the victim, being killed by a shotgun Booby Trap set up by Yukiharu, intended for Souta. | |
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An interesting case of this occurs at the end of Starcraft II. It's "revealed" that Tychus was working for Arcturus Mensk all along as a mole, and has been given the task of killing Sarah Kerrigan. Tychus, whose Power Suit has been rigged to kill him on Mengsk's command if he fails, forces a Sadistic Choice on Raynor between him and Kerrigan. Ultimately Raynor picks Kerrigan, blocks Tychus' shot at Kerrigan with the shoulder of his armor, and shoots Tychus before he can react. | |
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In the "sequel" to the DK Rap by brentalfloss, Chunky Kong is dead, having passed away of unspecified causes in the time since the game came out. | |
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The Walking Dead (2010): Happens twice in Season 3. Both times this trope also overlap with Black Dude Dies First; first, the massive inmate Big Tiny is the first prisoner to die. The second time, T-Dog is the first member of the group to die. In the Season 7 premiere, it's revealed that Abraham was Negan's victim, making him the first living casualty of Season 7. |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, out of all your party members, it's Vandham that bites the dust, after he defends the rest of the party (while yelling at them to run away) from Torna at the Olethro Ruins in Uraya. | |
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Danganronpa: In every main game, the obligatory Big Guy always dies in Chapter 4, their death is always for a noble reason, and they always play a part in the murder itself beyond simply being the victim or culprit. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: Sakura commits suicide to both atone for being The Mole and fulfill her end of the deal she made with Monokuma (he threatened to demolish her family's dojo unless she agreed to both be his mole and kill someone if no murder had happened in a while, but he never specified it had to be someone else). Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Nekomaru fought and lost against Gundham in a Duel to the Death as part of a Suicide Pact (the cast were trapped in a funhouse with no food until a murder occurred, and they both decided to sacrifice themselves to save everyone else). Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Gonta commits murder after learning about the (albeit fictional) state of the outside world, and was convinced by Kokichi that killing everyone before they could learn that horrible truth would be a an act of mercy (in reality, Kokichi had learned that Miu was planning to kill him, so he manipulated Gonta into killing her first in order to save his own ass). Also happens in fangames, such as the Danganronpa Another series. Kakeru from Danganronpa Another is killed off to prevent him from foiling the killer's murder plot, and to add insult to injury, unlike the canon big characters and his successor, he dies in Chapter 3. Shinji from Super Danganronpa Another 2 is subjected to multiple murder attempts, and eventually sets himself on fire to try and save his attackers from execution. |
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Almost played straight in Watership Down, but ultimately averted. Richard Adams originally intended for Bigwig, the biggest and best fighter among the heroes, to die in his fight against General Woundwort, but the author's daughters pleaded otherwise. | |
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One Piece: Zoro tries this at the end of Thriller Bark, but can't manage to die from mere lethal damage. | |
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Fear Effect plays with this trope. Deke gets killed off in the first game, and it was not even a Heroic Sacrifice. (In the true ending, he gets better.) | |
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In A Storm of Swords, Small Paul, a minor character who is described as being one of the biggest members of the Night's Watch, is the first and only person to be killed when an Other attacks Sam's group. | |
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Subverted when Hal Jordan goes on his mad rampage and kills Kilowog. Though he's the last Green Lantern he slays, it marks Hal's point of no return. | |
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Lewis Romero, a member of a school football team in Final Destination 3 is killed off after his head is crushed by weights. | |
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Hayato Kakizaki (Ben Dixon) from Super Dimension Fortress Macross was The Big Guy on Hikaru/Rick's team and the only wingman he ever lost. | |
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Saving Private Ryan being Saving Private Ryan, local Hot-Blooded contrarian Reiben fits the criteria. He's one of the only guys who lives, despite nearly going AWOL at one point and being ironically the squad member with the biggest problem with the mission to save Ryan in the first place. | |
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While he's not the first to die in the invasion of the Black Fortress during the climax of Krull, Rell the Cyclops is the first to die when they actually get inside the Fortress. He holds open a closing wall just long enough for his companions to get past, before it crushes him to death. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf novel Wolf's Honour, it's Big Guy Haegr who takes the blunt of the Thousand Son's attack, obviously making a heroic sacrifice in the process. | |
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Though he didn't die, the Transformers: Animated version of Bulkhead is definitely aware of whose job it is to take the heavy hits. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Nekomaru fought and lost against Gundham in a Duel to the Death as part of a Suicide Pact (the cast were trapped in a funhouse with no food until a murder occurred, and they both decided to sacrifice themselves to save everyone else). | |
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The Sword of Shannara Trilogy: The Sword of Shannara: Keltset the Troll, messiah of the Troll nation, and Genius Bruiser, dies holding up the roof while his best friend Panammon Creel, and Shea Ohmsford make their getaway. In The Wishsong of Shannara it is Helt, the gigantic Borderman, who stays behind to raise the drawbridge after his companions. Justified, as Helt had already been poisoned in a battle against an earlier monster, and knew his time was short. |
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In The Magnificent Seven (2016), it is the Mountain Man Jack Horne who is the first out of the Seven to die. | |
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In Blake's 7, the crew's resident Gentle Giant Gan was the first to die. | |
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Sergei from Call of Duty: Black Ops is shot down as he holds open a closing metal gate. | |
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In Tales of Xillia, Jiao ends up being the first member of the Chimeriad to perish when he decides to stand alone against the Arknoah group to buy the others time to escape. He manages to wipe out their ground forces, but ends up being done in by a cannon shot from one of their airships. | |
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In Rise of the Guardians, it's Sandman, unquestionably the strongest character of the Five-Man Band, who dies first, to establish the Big Bad of the movie as real threat, and make things much harder for the rest of the team. | |
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Sailor Moon: Sailor Jupiter is the first Senshi to die at the end of the first season of The '90s anime. Like all the others, she gets better. Inverted in Stars's initial mini-arc, where she was the second-to-last Senshi to go down and be captured by Nehelenia. She's later released by Sailor Moon. |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, this can happen to Dedue Molinaro in both the Blue Lions and the Black Eagles routes. In Blue Lions, during the timeskip, Dimitri gets caught and sentenced to death by Cornelia. However, Dedue manages to break Dimitri out of prison and take his place, and if you did not complete his paralogue before the timeskip, he dies here. In the Black Eagles route, during the battle on the Tailtean Plains, Dedue will reveal that he took the Crest Stones out of the vaults and gave them to a few of the other soldiers plus himself, hoping that the inevitable transformation into Crest Beasts they induce will be enough to turn the tides in favour of the Faerghus army. He doesn't technically have to be the first to die in this battle, but since the layout of the battlefield naturally draws you past him on your way to Dimitri, it's extremely likely. | |
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In Our Little Adventure, Pauline was more or less considered the main Big Guy in the adventuring group, despite being female. She dies at the end of 'The First Book' and since she's female and the biggest badass female of the group she also qualifies for Vasquez Always Dies. | |
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In Star Wars Legends: Chewbacca dies fighting the Yuuzhan Vong. Although when they drop a MOON on you it might not really be this trope. | |
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Looking for Group: Krunch is killed when fighting against King Tavor. | |
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In Goblins, K'seliss is liquefied by an undead horror. (In his last moments, he bites its head off.) | |
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Hilariously spoofed in Angel Beats!. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Ryu Jose combines this trope with Black Dude Dies First. Or rather, Ambiguously Brown Dude Dies First. | |
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Dom crashes a truck into a tanker full of flammable fuel in Gears of War 3 to destroy the Locust and Lambent surrounding the group. In Gears of War 2, Tai (who has so far been built up to be Made of Iron, able to shrug off being inside an exploding vehicle without a care in the world) is captured by the Locust. When you later rescue him, he is covered with cuts and has hooks dug into his back, having been heavily tortured. Marcus hands him a gun, assuming he would be eager to get back to fighting and get some revenge on the bastards, but the torture had broken him so completely that he immediately turns the gun on himself instead. An issue of the comic book shows that he even manged to fulfill the Heroic Sacrifice part of this trope, as he was captured while rescuing Dizzy from Skorge. In an early issue of the comic, Barrick has a Dying Moment of Awesome when he allows the rest of Delta Squad to escape from a group of Beast Riders on Bloodmounts by rushing in and beating the crap out of them with his bare hands. Given that he would have died in a few months/years anyway due to rustlung, choosing to go out like a badass was undeniably the correct choice. |
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Basilio of Fire Emblem: Awakening is killed by Walhart on the battlefield despite being warned ahead of time by someone from the future that he would die there. Actually subverted; it's later revealed that Basilio was Playing Possum. He did die in the original timeline, but because of the warning, he knew to play dead this time around rather than give into his pride and fight to the death. | |
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Played with in Titan Maximum: Spuds dies falling off his ridiculously high balcony while partying. | |
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In the made-for-TV Star Wars movie Caravan Of Courage, the experienced warrior and woodsman Ewok Chukha-Trok is the only one on the mission to die. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collectible Card Game, there's a card for "Security Sacrifice," which details the duty of security personnel to die so that the crew can achieve their objectives. | |
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